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January 5, 2006
Build Your Own Game Boy-Synced Hardware Sequencer Machine
Peter writes "Gijs Geiskes has posted his latest monster creation: a sequencer that syncs to Game Boys running LSDJ, and controls other goodies like Walkmans, Stylophone keyboards, and more. He's posted full circuit diagrams so you build on your own. (See his tutorials for LSDJ, too.)" [via] Link.
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Jan 5, 2006 04:27 AM
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January 4, 2006
Low cost Wireless MIDI glove
Video of a wireless MIDI glove..."haduz is a 24 year-old computer engineering graduate and musician from Bologna, Italy. He's developed the 3DID wireless MIDI glove, with 5 bend sensors (I'm guessing that's fingers), 3 gyroscopes, 3 accelerometers and 18 hours of battery life. As he says: "The most exciting thing is that the cost of the actual prototype (the glove shown in the video) together with the wireless receiver is about 150 euros." Thanks Tom! Link.
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Jan 4, 2006 04:25 AM
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January 3, 2006
Hacking the Korg Oasys
There's something appealing to running Linux on a $8000 Korg... MFenkner writes "Knoppix is a CD-based Linux distribution. I figured I'd give it a try to see if the Oasys would boot it, and sure enough it did! It even recognized a USB keyboard, USB mouse, and USB Ethernet adapter! The only problem is it doesn't recognize the display correctly by default, so it would require some customizing of the Knoppix CD. As it is, the screen is off-center and "blurry" due to the wrong resolution." [via] Link.
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Jan 3, 2006 03:19 AM
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December 30, 2005
DIY RCA Theremin Replica
"Mark McKeown loved the classic RCA Theremin so much that he built one to spec from scratch, down to the vintage power supply, coils, and cabinet. With authentic tubes and other details, this near-perfect replica can reproduce the instrument's sound far better than a cheap kit. Mark includes links to resources for specs and supplies if you want to try it yourself." [via] Link.
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Dec 30, 2005 02:32 AM
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December 29, 2005
HOW TO - Build an iPod Shuffle FM transmitter
MAKE photo pool member Shufflehacks writes "I built my own radio-transmitter for my Shuffle, I nicknamed it "iMouse". It works quite easy, there is a power switch on the bottom to turn it on. Just press play on the Shuffle and tune your radio to the right frequency. The range is about 100 to 150 meters.(500 feet) Now I can enjoy my Shuffle on my car stereo." Link. It's made out of an old mouse, excellent.
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Dec 29, 2005 09:42 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Portable Audio and Video, iPod |
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December 24, 2005
REAPER - Rapid Environment for Audio Prototyping
Justin Frankel (Winamp & Ninjam creator) has a new multitrack recording software called REAPER. This is a pretty good PC program to try out, small, fast, looks like it can tap in to your system sound for recording Skype or other VoIPs too, that could be useful for podcasts, etc. Don't fear the Reaper, it's free, for now. [via] Link.
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Dec 24, 2005 09:02 AM
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December 12, 2005
HOW TO - Build a Laserharp
"A laser harp is basically a big frame resembling a real harp. There are no strings. Instead, beams of laser light are projected from the bottom of the harp. These beams strike light sensors at the top of the frame. When something (a hand, foot, etc.) blocks the beam, a note is triggered on a synthesizer or some type of tone generator. Theoretically the harp could control anything but I'm interested in its musical possibilities." Here's how to make one! [via] Link.
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Dec 12, 2005 02:09 PM
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Burnstation - DIY audio sharing...
"BURN STATION is a mobile copying station which - as it travels through suburban spaces - supports the free distribution music and audio. It is software as well as a local network. But above all BURN STATION is a social event which congregates people together to listen, select and copy net label and net radio audio files with a Copyleft Licence." [via] Link to project and link to downloads to build your own.
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Dec 12, 2005 02:40 AM
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PEZ MP3 almost all gone!
Pat writes in about his PEZ MP3 players, they're almost gone! "There is still a chance to get a PEZ MP3 player in time for Christmas. I have several hundred of the little fellas in stock and ready to ship. After the recent appearance on Regis and Kelly they are selling quickly. So, if you haven't bought one yet and you want to get in on this limited-run, first-edition, hop over to pezmp3.com. Once this batch sells out, I am not making any more of this version." Link. See our review here.
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Dec 12, 2005 01:30 AM
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December 11, 2005
Open DMX USB Interface
Here's an excellent "open" hardware project for controlling lighting/effects systems - you can build your own, buy an assembled kit or improve the design and modify source code - "This DMX USB interface is based on the FTDI 232BM chip, it's a USB to serial converter. Using a simple application on a PC you can send and receive DMX512." Thanks Ladyada! Link.
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Dec 11, 2005 11:26 AM
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December 9, 2005
Make a touch screen interface from an old Palm PDA...
This is a great, use an old Palm to control your PC's music. JT writes "After using several mp3 player thin-clients and other Palm-based Winamp interfaces, I decided to write my own. Basic requirements: Must not require using (and losing) a stylus - Edits playlist order with a single touch/drag - Direct searching Winamp media library and server directory browsing." Link.
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Dec 9, 2005 02:42 PM
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LabVIEW as a Synthesizer?
Peter is looking for some Makers out there, he writes "Basically, the folks at National Instruments have added DSP (digital signal processing, useful for lots of audio applications -- both industrial and musical), to LabVIEW, their high-end development platform for creating test / measurement / control applications. Here's the cool part: they designed a free synth (as in musical synth) to run on the platform. Somewhere out there, there's a scientist or engineer who's going to love fiddling with this thing. It's electronic music for Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. Know anyone in those communities (blogosphere or printosphere) who might be interested in this?" Link.
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Dec 9, 2005 12:34 PM
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December 8, 2005
HOW TO - Eliminate Hum or Buzz
Tips for getting rid of the annoying hum - "Of all the annoyances that can afflict any audio/video home theater or even a simple stereo installation, the notorious "ground loop" may well be the most difficult and persistent one to track down and eliminate. A "ground loop" is caused by the difference in electrical potential at different grounding points in an audio/video system. (All the grounds in an A/V system should ideally be at "0" potential.) A ground loop typically adds a loud low-frequency hum or buzz as soon as you plug in any of various audio or video components, including subwoofers, cable-TV outboard boxes, satellite-TV feeds, TV displays, amplifiers, A/V receivers or turntables. The buzz/hum is a byproduct of the multiple power supply cables and a ground voltage differential within your system and its network of interconnecting cables." Link.
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Dec 8, 2005 06:07 AM
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December 7, 2005
The doorbell that plays WAVs
Not a complete how to, but a start for making your own doorbell that plays a sound of your choice - "When the doorbell to our company office broke, my boss half-jokingly suggested we replace it with one that could play WAVs. We didn't find a doorbell with the capability of playing WAVs ... but we found one that had a built-in microphone and could record its own chimes. Armed with a soldering iron, my colleague Mark and I set about bending Funki Tech to our will." Thanks Paul! Link.
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Dec 7, 2005 05:47 AM
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Listen to music from your iPod over a network...
Handy open source app (Mac) - "I wanted to be able to listen to the songs on my iPod for some time now. This is because I don't want to fill up the hard-drive of my iBook with music, but be able to access my Music when I'm on the way. I found some solutions but none really made me happy. Then I found mt-daapd which did exactly what I wanted except for one thing. mt-daapd can export any folder as an iTunes-music-share. The missing piece was, that it doesn't detect if an iPod is connected. So I wrote a simple programm that detects if an iPod is connected and then automatically shares it with mt-daapd." Link.
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Dec 7, 2005 01:43 AM
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December 5, 2005
HOW TO - Make electrostatic headphones
Very cool how-to, the Maker writes "I first thought electrostatic headphones were a joke. It didn't sound safe to strap high voltage transducers to your head. But after my work with electrostatic loudspeakers I had the skill and knowledge to try building a pair and listening to them." [via] Link.
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Dec 5, 2005 08:10 AM
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December 3, 2005
Happy Birthday, Doppler!
Last week was Doppler's birthday, Creative Digital Music has a tribute featuring where to learn more about the Doppler effect, and how it applies to astrophysics (but NOT the expansion of the universe), and how to reproduce it in software like Pro Tools. Now if someone can just come up with a good recipe for the Dopplertini. Definitely shaken. Link.
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Dec 3, 2005 05:43 AM
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December 2, 2005
Open source audio editor for Mac/Win/Linux gets big upgrades!
Peter writes "Audacity, the excellent and free waveform editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux, is finally getting a major upgrade. The new beta does real multitracking, helps you transcribe music or interviews with pitch controls, adds better Mac support, and unveils many other improvements. Most promising for podcasters: an FTP upload option." Link. This is great news for Podcasters!
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Dec 2, 2005 07:49 AM
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HOW TO - Build your first synth
Omegas writes in about the DIY Minimoog - "If you want to get started with analog synth building but Minimoog seems too complicated, see the instructions at Music From Outer Space on how to build your first synth. The Weird Sound Generator, as it's called, familiarizes you with the basics of analog sound generation and creates wicked sounds too." See previous.
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Dec 2, 2005 04:23 AM
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December 1, 2005
HOW TO - Make a Minimoog
Excellent project - "After playing on many different synths and copying several designs. I decided that I had to have a minimoog... Unfortunately the cost of a second hand minimoog is anything between 1000-2000 Euros depending on age and condition. So the only choice I have is to look at doing my own copy with the aim of keeping the circuits and design as original as possible. Having never played one, or seen one until a few months ago I have managed to amass a reasonable collection of circuits and pictures in order to help me in my quest." [via] Link.
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Dec 1, 2005 01:02 AM
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